John Bolton: War Hawk, Nationalist, Draft Dodger

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war propaganda, all of the screaming lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia

John Bolton

Richard Mellor Afscme Local 444, retired. Member DSA

What a disgusting individual this man Bolton is. Look at his face, the anger, the hatred. This is what being a representative of a global capitalist power does to you. He's akin to the British Cecil Rhodes or Winston Churchill. The truth of it is that he is no different, as are all of his political kind, than the British aristocrat Jeffrey Amherst who was the commander-in-Chief of British Forces in North America.  He advocated and used biological warfare against the US indigenous population giving blankets to them that were infected with typhoid. Here is a communication he had with one of his officers on that subject during the Native American resistance called Pontiacs War.

"Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them."
Bouquet, who was already marching to relieve Fort Pitt, agreed with this suggestion in a postscript when he responded to Amherst just days later on 13 July 1763:

"P.S. I will try to inocculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard's Method, and hunt them with English Dogs. Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine."
In response, also in a postscript, Amherst replied:

"P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate [sic] the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present." Source: Wiki  

Bolton is no different from this man in his goals other than his methods being far more sophisticated and effective.

Amherst

 Bolton hates Muslims, hates darker skinned people and most importantly of all hates workers and subscribes, as the British colonial representatives like Rhodes and Dr Livingstone did, to the three c’s, as a means to ensuring US capitalism’s dominance on the world stage------ Christianity, Commerce and Civilization. The first two are necessary for the third.

It's inconceivable that he is not a Jew hater, they always are, it's just convenient for him to keep it under wraps at the moment. The US Gentile bourgeois, the unelected gang that run the country, have no love for Jews. Their support for Israel is based on having no other alternative power in the Middle East as reliable in the defense of US capitalism's interests there and they use our tax money to keep it viable. The Saudi's and any other Arab regime cannot be trusted because of the revolutionary potential of the Arab masses. Like the British importation of Protestants in to Ireland as part of their occupation, creating a minority enclave of people of one race or religion, on which the invading power can rest works very well in the short term. The history of Ireland, Israel and Pakistan is similar in this regard. The insoluble (on a capitalist basis) crises in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Kashmir are a product of British colonial policies.

Bolton, like most of his kind was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War, Trump, George W Bush (now a great friend of Michelle Obama’s apparently) were as well.  When I think of growing up in England and meeting young Americans in the military, they were almost entirely working class whites, many from poorer communities in the south and mid-west or black folks and other workers of color.  I have lost friends and co-workers here in the US who died from Vietnam and Agent Orange related diseases forty years later. The US media always focuses on the pilot McCain, a bourgeois warrior fortunate through class privilege to fight his war from the relative safety of a jet fighter. The US workers that fought on the ground are not given the same treatment when returning from these corporate wars many of them ending up in menial jobs, homeless and both physically and mentally damaged.

I also met young Americans growing up in England who simply took off and faced the possibility of never being able to return to the US. This is how the state treats working class people who refuse to fight in unprovoked, predatory wars while people like Bolton, Trump, Bush all of them, become wealthy and famous promoting more profit driven conflicts.